Poesy - 20th May 2016

A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare.

I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain pursuits the world esteems,
Long did I near your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.

Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.

In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me,
No one to cry for, live for, love.

Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up - you again are there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

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I stand testimony of change

from a shrub to a tree of life

I'm immersed in the wisdom of time

its delivered to me thru' ages

the river below the ravine flows wild

but its rage has mellowed

this terrain,this li'l hill I stand,

since time started moving fast, has

changed from the untrammeled horizon

emblazoned in a feral panorama of green

to this manicured, man-made expanse

colorful, yet lost in its chiseled vision

How many a man has traversed this path

a constant reminder of all things formed,

fashioned by the steady flow of mankind

they have traipsed thru the woods

in search of space

cutting through the dense foliage

                              braced and created

to call it exploration and settlement

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Why am I so bound to your rhythms?

Your little fingers moves and my mind evolves from within

your heart skips a beat in fear

and I fear the consequence of its beat

You sing in murmured tones

and my heart breathes freely, ceremoniously

where were you when I wept and dreamt heavy?

where were you whence my horizons never had the sun?

Was it you when I felt pangs of pain,

at times when things were good for me?

did you ever feel a bereaving sensation

and never knew why and for what?

Do you feel it must have been me, someplace

deep in anguish and despair?

whence did our twains meet?

was it when you cried out loud first

when light permeated thru' your li'l eyes?

I have walked a million roads

traversed paths hitherto unheard of

in search of what I never knew then

Now whence I've found my destiny, I weep

I weep in joy, for the clarity of my vision

I weep in sorrow, for the love I could've gathered

I embrace you as my heart beats deep and subtle

fearful never to lose you..

watching as the horizon slowly lightens up

a million promises and boundless colors

brimming all over the expanse

and I shudder, my deepest contours, blissful

filled with overflowing happiness